NCT01696331

Text Messaging for Adherence in Adolescent Liver Transplant Recipients

Impact of Text Messaging on Adherence in Adolescent Liver Transplant Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Text message reminders will improve adherence to lab tests in adolescent liver transplant recipients.

Detailed description

Adolescent patients who received a liver transplant will be recruited to participate in receiving text message reminders for lab tests. They will be send de-identified messages according to their required lab schedule. The investigators will monitor their adherence to lab tests as well as medication and clinic visits. They will also have a questionnaire about their medical regimen before and at the end of the study.

Conditions

• Liver Transplant
• Adherence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Text Message Reminder	Sent TM reminder at beginning and end of each month that corresponded to required lab frequency. Patients were able to send autoresponses.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-01-01
• Completion: 2013-01-01
• First posted: 2012-10-01
• Last updated: 2018-04-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States